What happens when you cross The Jerky Boys, Bob Newhart, Peter Cook, song, satire, dance, nutty phone calls, modern morality tales, anchovy hunting, peace activism, education material and an irreverent sense of humour?
The double CD Live in the 12th Dimension by Harry Potbelly Lord of the Onion Rings!
Below you will be able to listen to Harry's coded tracks. Some of the answers you seek may be identified every 12 or 36 spoken words or letters. Scroll down, enjoy, think, discuss and send this page to a friend for comment!
Stop Press! Listen or download (free of charge) Harry's deep meaning romantic poem called The never ending cycle of cosmic love. The creatures referenced in the poem are symbolisms for something else. Can you or your friends break the code? Play (1 meg WMA format) Send this link to your friends today!
| CD 1: index of tracks | (Total Time 63'00") | ||
| (3'40") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (5'23") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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After listening to the above track, answer the following deep meaning rhetorical questions. There are 36 coded messages within this song. Some are listed below as answers, to help you get started:
Now dance to this 2005 summer hit track at the next opportunity! Turn the dance floor into an aquarium with everyone being a sea creature of his or her choice. There is a large intro; to give you time to do this. If a large crowd is involved, get a few volunteers to act as lobsters. They should remain kneeling trying to catch their next meal by reaching out with their claws. A few fishermen should also take part. Hint: you may need a few friends dancing together to be jellyfish and squids. And more importantly, sometime afterwards maybe on a beach or at a dinner party somewhere, discuss the very important messages being conveyed by Harry Potbelly's Frippa Frappa. | |||
| (5'00") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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Special Membership Offer: Become a Member of the Institute of Chartered Anchovy Hunters and Have FCA after your name! Harry is uncomfortable asking for charity from members of the public relating to personal taxation 'arrears', so he has invented something to pay off these disputed taxes: the net proceeds from download sales of this track will be used to pay off this 'debt' in a special way. If you like Harry's cheeky idea, press the green button below and you will be able to email a direct payment via Paypal to the Inland Revenue. It will be up to you how much. Alternatively, for the sum of £12.12, which will go to the Inland Revenue in the same way, you will get one year's membership to the Institute of Chartered Anchovy Hunters and a pretty certificate in colour to print off and hang on your wall. You will be also be legally permitted, in certain situations as long as you pass a simple online test, to use the letters FCA after your name. This virtual organisation is based outside the realms of planet Earth, therefore has nothing whatsoever to do with that most esteemed Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales, whose members also have FCA after their name. But that's not all: for a truly amazing price of only £36.36 everyone in your household, including pets and vegetables, may become members too and have FCA after their names as well. For more info, press the blue or yellow buttons below.
(With all three payment options above, you will be able to leave a message to the UK Tax authorities within the 'You've got cash!' email they will get, generated by Paypal.) | |||
| (3'26") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (1'05") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (3'17") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (1'20") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (3'58") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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Now dance to this ballad track 'cheek to cheek'...literally! Please avoid falling over if bottoms are joined. More importantly: avoid producing 'special body effects' if the dance floor is crowded. You may not be invited to the party again, or worse still, kicked out. | |||
| (4'07") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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The well known and respected UK high street food retailer should be commended for their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Refer here. | |||
| (2'37") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (5'14") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (4'53") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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This track was created to serve a future purpose. It has no major significance now. Harry wishes to emphasise that this track does not apply to IBM®: a whale of a company the size of a dinosaur, so wonderful, Harry regularly uses absorbent toilet paper with their logo preprinted on both sides to remind himself of their majestic grandness, even while visiting the 'restroom'. | |||
| (2'16") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (4'52") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (3'16") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (3'11") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (4'42") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (0'42") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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Legal note: Harry occasionally eats fast food. This satirical song has nothing whatsoever to do with McDonalds® or Taco Bell®, or Taco Bell's® use of a Chihuahua in recent advertising campaigns. According to TV advertisements that the British Government is contemplating banning before 9pm, fast food is usually wholesome and tasty. Kids love it, even though it contributes to obesity and makes them fart. | |||
| CD 2: index of tracks | (Total Time 76'46") | ||
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Now dance to this track! It doesn't have to be done in belly dance style. Freak out during the chorus parts. | |||
| (2'49") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (3'53") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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Discuss the use of the name Golan. Why is it 'ugly' in the sense of Middle Eastern peace? What solutions does Harry propose for the region: | |||
| (1'59") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (2'30") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (1'08") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (3'11") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (0'45") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (0'52") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (1'22") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (2'45") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (2'23") | Play on MP3 | Buy Awaiting (c) Permission | |
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| (0'41") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (6'37") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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This is the first Frappa (Phone call rap) track ever released by Harry, the inventor of this style of dance music. Harry thinks it's sometimes more fun listening to a funny coded story while dancing, than hearing the same lyrics repeated again and again. | |||
| (1'35") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (2'21") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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| (2'02") | Play on MP3 | Buy Awaiting (c) Permission | |
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After listening to the above track, answer the following deep meaning rhetorical questions. What if?
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| (2 x 18'00") | Play on MP3 | Buy | |
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The style of Track 36 is very unusual as it is two tracks playing simultaneously with certain sections of the discussions not being in chronological order (Quentin Tarantino style). It lasts exactly 18 minutes, ie, 36 minutes of actual playback if listened to back to back. The ultimate message this double CD is giving can be found exactly 12 minutes and 12 seconds into track 36 and lasts exactly 36 seconds. Many, many serious 'Harry' messages can be heard and analysed by listening across both sides of track 36 at the same time. Harry also wanted to demonstrate that two actual realities could be played and in theory 'live' side-by-side, across actual space/time. It is easier to understand this weird track if you listen to it three times back to back: using a right earphone or speaker first, then the left, followed by both. It will all make sense on third playback as you listen across both conversations simultaneously. If you understand this track you will understand why Live in the 12th Dimension and 12-12-12 were written. | |||
Harry 'the man with the plan' Potbelly thanks you for reading and/or listening to this material. Why don't you send this page to twelve friends now and ask for their opinions?
Would you like to see an indexed list of the complete Harry plan to help bring about global peace and extreme poverty eradication by December 12th 2012? He is after all the World's most unusual peace activist!
Harry wants everyone to either listen to or read his material so that they understand what his messages are about and try and break the codes. For people who cannot afford to buy Live in the 12th Dimension or individual tracks, and/or are hearing impaired, a full PDF transcript of all the material will be available in January 2005.
© (p) Harry Potbelly Lord of the Onion Rings 2004. Written, performed and directed by Harry Potbelly. Produced by Harry Potbelly, Mike Allison and Warren Wills. A full list of copyright and performing credits will be displayed on the CD printed inserts. Azam software was used to record and manage aspects of this project.
My deepest gratitude to Adrian Silas (Masquerade), Mike Allison (ACM studios), Andrew Fleming, Warren Wills, Marie-Louise, Kristoffer, Miki and Tony Brett (Perceptive Solutions). Album cover and upside down spinning globe (c) Harry Potbelly. Produced by Tony Brett (Perceptive Solutions) based on Andronicos' Global flag www.12-12-12.org (Many Tribes: One People, One Planet World Flag). Dolphin image used on album cover and this website produced by Lucie Grenier (www.finfond.net) Merci Lucie! Many thanks to Marilyn, Milica, Steve P, Malkit and Ryan. A word of thanks to Balder (AKA 'Bladder') the family dog, Toula, Celerier and Cyril the cats (who survived the ordeal), Anchovies at the Inland Revenue and DTI (who will not) and KFC for onsite catering.
This work is dedicated to Frippa and its future descendants wherever and whenever they may be living in the oceans of the universe one day. (The Creator willing)
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Harry Potbelly (as opposed to Lord Harry Pot Belly) is the World's most unusual peace activist and plans to turn the World upside down. Would you like to help? Do you agree with many of the ideas presented on his other website: www.harryrings.org ? How would you run the World if you were in charge?
Web design by Perceptive Solutions. This site is © Harry Potbelly 2004. It is written in British English!
Last modified: 12 November 2007